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Tom Drury Hunts In Dreams: A Novel
HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO 0618127402 / 9780618127405 Paperback BOOK
Spend an action-packed weekend with the Darlings, a family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun he will do anything to get; for his wife, Joan, an imaginative life; for their young son, Micah, night life; and for Joan's daughter, Lyris, a stable footing from which to begin to grow up. 5.5x8 inches, 208 pgs.
'With Hunts in Dreams,Tom Drury returns to the American Midwest -- the setting of his acclaimed first novel, The End Of Vandalism. He tells the powerful, nuanced, and often funny story of one October weekend in the lives of a precarious family. Everyone in Hunts in Dreams wants something without knowing quite how to get it. Charles Darling covets an heirloom shotgun and will break the law, if necessary, to retrieve it. Joan Gower is drifting away from her marriage to Charles, hoping to reclaim an imaginative life. Their young son, Micah, prowls an empty town at night, testing the scope and reliability of his world. And Joan's daughter Lyris, after sixteen years as an orphan, seeks only a stable footing from which to begin the "perilous journey to adulthood." Sometimes together, sometimes independently, father, mother, son, and daughter move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.
REVIEWS
"Drury never misses a beat -- the quiet moments dazzle as much as the louder ones." --Kirkus Reviews
"It gives off a sense of passing time, of that particular pleasure of a multipart novel,the roman-fleuve." --The New York Times
"Tom Drury's beguiling novel...Hunts in Dreams is just short of allegory, but the characters have a comic innocence that persuades us into their ventures." --The New York Times
"Here's an author who sees and hears what others either miss or fail to note the significance of." --Richard Russo
". . .[Drury] reveals the humorous, edgy pathos of his characters and invests his story with the ambiguity of real life and the poignancy of unrealized dreams." --Publishers Weekly, Starred
"Drury packs more realism and heartfelt sincerity into his new novel . . . than many authors do in twice its 200 pages." --The Denver Post
". . . A haunting and wistful novel in which ordinary events take on the patina of a waking dream." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screw-ups trying to do better." --Salon
"Drury deftly describes how family troubles can, with time, distance, and love, be tamed." --The Detroit Free Press
"Using language at once laconic, edgy, and musical, [Drury] has written a startling and utterly original novel." --Newsday
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tom Drury's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the Mississippi Review. His previous novels are The End Of Vandalism and The Black Brook. One of GRANTA'S "Best Young American Novelists, " Drury was raised in Iowa and lives with his wife and their daughter in Connecticut.
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